Listed-corn cultivator



(No. Model.)

G; w. MOFPITT.

LISTED CORN OULTIVATOR'.

No. 338,180. Patented Mar. 16', 1886.

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EUNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE \V. MOFF-ITT, OF FRANKFORT, KANSAS.

LISTED-CORN CU LTIVATO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 338,180, dated March 16, 1886.

Application filed January 2, 1886.

. which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to an improvement in listed-corn cultivators; and it consists in the peculiar construction and combination of devices, that will be more fully set forth hereinafter, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective viewof myinvention completed. Fig. 21s afront elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is an inverted perspective view'of one of the cultivating-frames. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal sectional view of the same. Fig. 5 is a detailed View of the spoon-shovel.

Listed corn is planted in a furrow having a ridge on either side, audit has been heretofore difficult to cultivate the corn during the early stages of its growth, and to keep it free from weeds, thus seriously retarding the growth of the young plants. This function it is the object of my iuventionto perform.

A represents the usual double-shovel-culti- Vatorframe,having the diverging beamsBaud the handles 0. This frame is sometimes attached to a sulky or riding frame in the usual way, but is here shown as being detached therefrom for the sake of convenience.

D represents my improved cultivator-frames,

- each of which has diverging beams E, arranged similarly to the shape ofan ordinary A-harrow.

F represents a connecting-bar,which isbent to form an oblique angle, and is attached to the beams E near the rear ends thereof. The inner end of this bar is first bent upwardly at an angle, as at f, and then vertically, as at f. The front ends of the beams E are attached to a shoe, G, which is formed substautiallyin the shape of the bar F, and has its front side curved to form a runner, as at g. This shoe is provided at its inner end with the inclined portion 9 and the vertical portion 9 corresponding in shape with the parts f and f of the bar F.

H represents a fender, which is formed of sheet metal, is rounded at its front end, and

Serial No. 187,428. (Nomodclj gradually widened toward its rear end. This fender is bolted to the parts f and g of the frame, and is supported vertically thereby.

I represents a spoon-shovel, which is bolted to the part 9 on the inner side of the fender, and the beams E are provided on their lower sides with the rearwardly-inclined harrowteeth (1.

The frames D are made alike, one being attached to the right-hand beam of the frame A, and the other being attached to the left-hand beam thereof by means of vertical standards K, which are secured to the beams E. Itwill thus be seen that the fenders are opposed to each other and situated at asuitabledistance apart.

The operation of my invention is as follows: As the cultivator is drawn along,the frames D run on the upper sides of the ridges on each side of the furrow, and the shovels I work in the said furrow on each side of the row of plants, thus thoroughly stirring thesoil around them. The barrow-teeth which work on the sides of the ridges destroy the weeds, and the fenders prevent clods, which may roll down thesides of the ridges, from falling against the young plants. The shoes having the curved front sides pulverize the earth in advance of the harrowteeth.

In Fig. 5 I illustrate devices by means of which the spoon-shovel may be adjusted vertically and caused to run in the ground atany desired depth. The shovel I is made separate from the bar I, and has on its upper end a stud, 1-, having a transverse opening, 8. The bar I is adapted to be bolted at its front end to the part g on the inner side of the fender, as hereinbefore described, and the rear end of the said bar is upturned, as at t, and provided with a vertical slot,n. A bolt,t', passes through the opening 8 in the shovel and through the slot, and thereby secures the shovel to the bar I, and admits of its being vertically adjusted.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- I 1. The frame D, comprising the diverging beams E, having the barrow-teeth on their lower sides, the bar F at the rear end of the frame, and bent in the form of an oblique angle, and thereby adapted to the shape of the ridge, and having the inner extended end, the shoe G, formed substantially like the bar F,

form of an obtuse angle in erosssection, and the vertical fender attached to the inner ends having teeth depending therefrom, shovels on of the bar F, and the shoe G, and the onltithe inner side of the teeth, and the fenders on [5 vator-teeth working on the inner side of the the inner side of the frame, as set forth.

5 fender, substantially as described. In testimony that I claim the foregoing; as my and attached to the front end of the frame,

2. lhe cultivator having the opposing frames own Ihave hereto affixed my signature in presadapted to theshape of the ridges, the harrowi enoe of two witnesses. teeth extending from the frames, the shovels on the inner side of the barrow-teeth, andthe ro fenders on the inner side of the frame, as set Witnesses:

forth. HUGH G. TROSPER,

3. The frame I), made substantially in the GEORGE W. MOFFITT.

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